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Botanical Classification of Coffee

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While the international coffee trade is concerned with only two coffee species — Coffea arabica and C. canephora — botanists regard as coffee trees all tropical plants of the Rubiaceae family, which produce seed resembling coffee beans. During botanical explorations of the tropical regions, from the sixteenth century onwards, wild coffees also attracted the attention of explorers and botanists. Their specimens are found in the herbaria and the names of the most famous explorers have been commemorated in both specific and generic epithets. Hundreds of species have been described, but the taxonomic classification of the genus Coffea has become very complex and rather confused.

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